Freeborn Garretson Hibbard


Reverend Freeborn Garrettson Hibbard was an American Methodist minister, theologian, and author.

Life

His father, Reverend Billy Hibbard, was a well-known clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Freeborn entered the ministry of the same church in the New York conference at the age of eighteen, before he had completed his college course, and continued in this work chiefly in western New York from 1830 till 1856, when he was elected editor of the "Northern Christian Advocate", printed in Auburn, New York. In 1860 he resumed the pastorate and became presiding elder of the Geneva district.
Hibbard died on January 27, 1895 in Clifton Springs, New York.

Works

Dr. Hibbard's principal works are as follows:
He also edited the "Sermons" and "Works", and published a "Biography of Bishop Leonidas L. Hamline". The "Commentary on the Psalm" in the Whedon series of "Commentaries on the Old Testament" was written by him. He also published a "History of the late East Genesee conference".